Combined phonograph and picture-projector



A. RASMUSSEN, JR.

COMBINED PHONOGRAPH AND PICTURE PROJECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR-8,1921.

1,390,640.- Patentedsept- 13, 1921.

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COMBINED PHONOGRAPH AND PICTURE PROJECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.8,1921.

1,390,640. PatentedSept. 13, 192 1.

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COMBINED PHONOGRAPH AND PICTURE PROJECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 8,1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW RASM'FISSEN, JR'.,. 0! SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

COMBINED PHONOGRAPH AND IIC'1'U'RIEI-IE'ROi'l'IElG'IOR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW RAsMUssEN, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in'the county of Salt- Lake, State of Utah, have invented a new and useful Combined Phonograph and Pieture-Projector;'and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to combined phonographs and picture projectors and has for its ob ect to provide a device of this character, wherein a song which is being played will be illustrated by intermittently, changing pictures, which pictures are projected on to the front of the cabinet of the phonograph.

A further object is to provide a sound reproducing machine and p cture projecting machine, said pictures being carried by leaves of a book, which leaves and book are mounted on a removable slide disposed over the amplifier. and are intermittently changed through mechanism cooperating with notches 1n the edges of the leaves and controlled by the tone arm; also to provide means whereby the pictures will be projected through the forward end of the amplifier on to a glass 1n the .front end of the amplifier.

A further object is to provide a book holder comprising a horizontally disposed member having adjacent its rear side hori- 'zontally disposed arms adapted to recelve and hold the rear edge of the book against the spring action of the book when it is bent to a vertical position against a vert cally disposed spring. Also to provide vertically movable fingers for engaging the faces of the leaves of the book, said fingers being moved by the tone arm in sucha manner that they will register with stepped notches in the leaves of the book and intermittently release said leaves thereby allowing them to move to a horizontal position for changing the picture. Also to provide a pivoted restoring bail whereby said leaves may be restored to vertical osition.

With the above and other ob'ects in view the invention resides in the com ination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings, described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention may Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 13, 1921- Application filed March 8,

1921. Serial No. 450,541.

be made within the scope ofwhat is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of the combined phonograph and picture projecting machine, partsbeing broken away to more clearly illustrate the structure.

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1 showing the restoring bailin vertical position.

Fig. 3' is a front elevation of the com-' bined phonograph and picture projecting machine.

Fig. 4.- is a detail perspective view of the tone arm COIltIOlliIlg lever for controlling the mechanism for intermittently changing the picture.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the removable slide which supports the book.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the book.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of one of the leaves of the book.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the cabinet of a conventional form of phonographthereof and 2 the turn table thereof which may be operated by any form of spring motor. Disposed over the turn table 2 is a conventional form of tone arm 3 provided with a silas 4, which silas cooperates with the sound groove of the record 5 disposed on the turn table 2. Extending downwardly at the rear end of the cabinet 1 and in communication-with the tone arm 3 is an amplifier 6, said amplifier having.

slide, a book 12 having a plurality of leaves provided with various plctures, illustrating the particular record being placed is dis- 'posed and held, said book being flexible at 13, thereby allowing the body of the book to be vertically disposed when its rear side 14 is forced under the clips 15 carried by the slide 11. The slide 11 is also provided with an upwardly extending spring arm-16 which engages the rear side of the book 12 and stepped notches 26, which when the fingers exerts a forward pressure on the body thereof, the reason for which will presently appear.- Extending upwardly and from points adjacent the ends of the slide 11 are vertically disposed guide rods 17, on which guide rods, the eyes 18 of a yoke 19 are guided in their upward and downwardmovement, said .wardly extending fingers 24 which overlie the op osite vertical edges of the pages '25 of the 00k, which edges are provided with 24 are moved downwardly and come into registration with the-notches of the pages allow the pages to be intermittently released, thereby allowing the same to assume horizontal positions under their flexing action and under the initial impulse given the page by the upwardly extending spring 16 which bears against the back of the book. Also dispose on the slide 11 and to each side of the book 12 are electric lights 27, which lights reflect and project the picture on the leaf of the book which is exposed through the lens 28 in .the housing 29 of the forward portion of the amplifier6 and on to the frosted glass 30 supported in the screened opening in the front side 8 of the cabinet of the graphophone. Pivotally mounted and transversely disposed on the slide 11 is a rockable shaft 31 having a centrally disposed bail 32, which bail is normally in horizontal osition as shown in Fig. 1, and dispose beneath the leaves as they are intermittently released by the fingers 24. After the leaves have been released said leaves may be restored to their vertical position as shown; in Fig. 1 by the operator opening the door 33 in the sideof the cabinet and grasping the thumb member 34 in such a manner that the shaft 31 may be rotated and the bail 32 forced upwardly in engagement with the leaves until the leaves are vertically disposed as shown in Fig. 1.

Secured to the upper side of the yoke 19 as at 35 is a cord 36, which cord extends over a pulley 37 carried, by the upper end of the post 22 and thence over a pulley 38 carried by an inwardly and outwardly adjustable screw 39. The cord 36 after passing over the pulley 38 extends inwardly and is connected as at 40 to a pivoted lever 41, said pivotal lever having its-pivotal point 42 substantially centrally thereof and its arm 43 extending upwardly through the casing, and terminating in a bifurcation 45,

by said pictures may be with fingers cooperatin which bifurcation receives the lower end 46 of a pin 47 carried by the tone arm 3. Pir 47 moves with the tone -arm3 and it will be seen that as the. tone arm moves inwardly during the playing of a record that the lever 41 will be rocked on its pivotal point thereby allowing the yoke 19 to move downwardly for intermittently releasing the pages 25 of the book thereby showing various scenes and illustrating the song that is being played. It will be seen that by adjusting the screw 19 that the pictures may be synchronized with the music. "It will also be' seen that when the tone arm 3 is restored to starting position as shown in Fig. 2, that the yoke 19 will also be raised to starting position. v

From the above it will be seen that a combined phonograph and picture projecting machine is provided which is simple in construction and one wherein the operation is positive and the parts reduced to a minimum.

The invention having been set forth what is claimed as new and useful is 1. A combined phonograph and picture projector comprising a rotatable disk, a tone arm movable adjacent said disk, said tone arm terminating in a downwardly and outwardly extending amplifier, the outer end of said amplifier curving outwardly, a vertically disposed lens carried in a housing of said amplifier and in alinement with a screen disposed in the amplifier end, a lurality of pictures disposed behind the ens arm terminating in a downwardly and out-.

wardly extending amplifier, the outer end of said amplifier curving upwardly, a vertically disposed lens carried in a housing of said amplifier, a screen disposed in the amplifier end and in alinement with the lens, a plurality of pictures disposed behind the lens, means for intermittently changin said pictures, said picture changing means ing controlled by the tone arm and means for varying the time of change of the pictures.

3. The combination with a phonograph comprisin a rotatable disk having a tone arm mova 1e adjacent said disk and a downwardly, outwardly and upwardly extending amplifier, of means controlled by said tone arm for intermittently releasing a plurality ofwmembers having pictures thereon whererojected on a screen, sald means comprising a vertically movable yoke havin a flexible connection with the tone arm, said yoke being provided with the edges of the picture carried mem rs and adapted to be moved into registration with notches in the edges of said members for intermittently releasing said members.

4. The combination with a phonograph comprising a record, a tone arm, a downwardly and forwardly extending amplifier, of a book support and picture projecting device therefor controlled by the tone arm, said device comprising a platform arching the amplifier and transversely disposed, vertically disposed rods carried bysaid platform, a yoke slidably mounted on saidrods and provided with inwardly extending fingers, a book held on said platform and havmg its pages provided with non-registering notches, a flexible member connected to the upper end of the yoke and passing over pulleys, said cable having its upper end con nected to a pivoted lever, connecting means between the pivoted lever and the tone arm whereby during the playing of a record, the yoke will slowly move downwardly, means for projecting the pictures on the pages of,

the book on a screen and means whereby as the yoke moves downwardly said leaves of the book willbe intermittently released and allowed to move to a horizontal position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANDREW RASMUS'SEN, JR.

Witnesses:

SARAH HUosoN, AMos HUDSON. 

